HMAC-SHA Signatures

Topics

Required Authentication Information
Basic Authentication Process
About the String to Sign
About the Time Stamp
Java Sample Code for Base64 Encoding
Java Sample Code for Calculating HMAC-SHA1 Signatures

The topics in this section describe how Amazon SQS uses HMAC-SHA signatures to authenticate Query requests.

Document Conventions
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